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First, it is likely that the Kuiper Belt objects are extremely primitive remnants from the early accretional phases of the solar system.
Object 1993 SC This image shows a small part of the discovery frames of 1993 SC, one of the brightest Kuiper-Belt objects so far discovered.
The May 22, 2001, discovery image for the large Kuiper Belt Object 2001 KX76 was produced by combining two exposures from the 4-meter Blanco Telescope at CTIO in such a way that moving objects appear ...
Curiously, it seems that the Oort Cloud objects were formed closer to the Sun than the Kuiper Belt objects.
The Kuiper belt (pronounced /ˈkaɪpɚ/, to rhyme with "viper"), sometimes called the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt, is a region of the Solar System beyond the planets extending from the orbit of Neptune (at 30 AU)
Lists currently known transneptunian objects, also known as Kuiper Belt Objects. Updated daily.
The tiny blue and purple dots in this picture show where Kuiper Belt Objects are. ... Astronomers call this huge group of planetoids "Kuiper Belt Objects", or "KBOs" for short.
Many astronomers include Pluto and its moon, Charon, in a class of giant, icy boulders called Kuiper Belt Objects, ... An artist's view of the orbiting pair of Kuiper Belt Objects called 1998 WW31.
This mirror site is no longer operational. The original site is at: http://www.seds.org/billa/tnp/.
That's the question that astronomers have recently been debating. Other than its relatively large size, Pluto is practically indistinguishable from the Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) and short period comets. ...
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